Why did Solomon ask for wisdom when he already had wisdom? Why did Solomon always feel "empty" despite being very wealthy? Perhaps, we would say: Solomon was humble, so Solomon asked for wisdom! I can tell you: Solomon is not a humble person, and Solomon is very proud! Solomon spent 13 years building a palaze for himself and 7 years building a house for Jehovah God. Was he humble? Solomon was so proud! Solomon felt that he was greater than Jehovah God! And indeed Solomon had no wisdom, which is why Solomon asked for wisdom!
Solomon was already very wealthy, so why did Solomon still feel empty? You may say: Solomon's wealth was not enough and he felt not satisfied enough, so Solomon felt empty! I can tell you directly: Solomon himself is a "greedy person"! Solomon was indeed very wealthy. King David left him enough things to build a temple, and he had quite a lot of resources left. Therefore, Solomon later spent 13 years building a temple for himself! Solomon was a very "greedy man"! Looking at Solomon’s concubines, we know how greedy and insatiable Solomon was! Solomon had 1,000 wives and concubines in his life. How greedy and unsatisfied was he? Let’s take a look at how Solomon treated “Hiram”? Hiram gave Solomon gold to build a temple, but Solomon gave Hiram a pile of rubbish land! From many small things, we can be sure that Solomon was a greedy man! A person who is greedy must be "a person without wisdom"! A wise person will never be greedy! Is it wise for a person to die from overeating?
I once told everyone: "Wisdom" is divided into "IQ" and "EQ"! A person with IQ but no EQ will definitely become a greedy person, just like King Solomon! Our current education has always focused on "IQ", that is, we have always focused on "knowledge education", and we have not paid attention to "emotional intelligence education" at all. Why? Because we feel that "emotional intelligence education" is completely useless! Our current "elite education" only focuses on "knowledge education"! Yesterday I asked everyone: Which one is more important, "IQ" or "EQ"? I must tell everyone: "Emotional Quotient" is more important than IQ! We must understand that we are now in an era of AI explosion. Each of us does not need to be afraid of lack of knowledge. What we need to be afraid of is: How do we use this knowledge? How do we tell what knowledge we really need? We also need "emotional intelligence" to help us distinguish between "true and false information"! Our lives are full of all kinds of lies. How can we not be deceived by lies? This requires "Emotional Quotient"!
Why do I say: Solomon had no wisdom? Because Solomon himself did not accumulate wealth for his descendants at all. What Solomon accumulated was: The division of Israel! Why? Because Solomon himself is a greedy and evil-minded person! If a person does not have "righteousness", basically his "Emotional Quotient" = 0! When we read the Proverbs of Solomon, we will find that Solomon preached many great principles, but Solomon himself could not practice any of them! Why was Solomon "empty"? Because Solomon had no "power" to do righteousness! Either there is a rich person and has no ability to do righteousness things! A truly wealthy person have no "Emotional Quotient" and the "ability to do justice"! Let’s look at King David again. He was not very wealthy throughout his life, but was King David ever poor? King David never felt poor! The real difference between King David and Solomon is: King David feared God and truly put God in his heart. King David truly acted out "the fear of God"! Solomon feared God by putting God in his mouth! From what we did in Solomon’s life, we understand: Solomon relied on God to make money! Because Solomon did not fear God, Solomon could not act righteously! Solomon also had no "Emotional Quotient", so Solomon's life was "empty"!
We must remember: People who do not fear God definitely do not have "Emotional Quotient" and definitely do not have "wisdom"! "Emotional Quotient" is very important! "Emotional Quotient" is about our life! A person with "Emotional Quotient" will never suffer from depression! Many pastors say that their pastors suffer from depression! This man certainly does not fear God! A person who fears God knows that whatever God wants to accomplish, He will definitely accomplish it himself! If we worry about what God doesn’t want to accomplish, or if we try to change it ourselves, we will still fail! Therefore, to this day I still don’t understand: Why do so many pastors suffer from depression? Is it because they don’t believe in God’s power? Or do they themselves seek to dominate their congregation? Think about it for yourselves... Stop blaming your ungodliness on God and the congregation! "Ungodly people" Can God not know? What happened to Solomon? Was Solomon happy in his life? Solomon, like Israel, went down to Hades in sorrow! Hades is for the purpose of judging people like Solomon and Israel. We don’t know their merits or demerits, but God will definitely judge them!
